EVENTS at HOUSMANS
We regularly have a variety of events in the shop, and are always welcome for suggestions from authors, artists and campaigners who want to use the shop for evening events. Past events include talks, book signings, film screenings, art exhibitions and musical performances.
Click here for an archive; which includes a number of selected filmed highlights, of our previous events. Also, you can view video from some special events here.
All events are susceptible to last minute changes, so please keep checking the website or contact the shop for confirmation.
JULY
(walk)
Housmans Bookshop presents
‘London’s Burning’
a celebration of radical London
3rd July to 12th September 2010
‘Radical St.Pancras & Somers Town’
with Mike Berlin
Mike Berlin leads a walk around the streets of St.Pancras and Somers Town and recounts its hidden history and radical past.
(talk/book event)
‘Soho Noir’
with Cathi Unsworth and Paul Willetts
Saturday 7th August, 5pm
London writer Cathi Unsworth and Marc Glendening of the Soho-loving The Sohemian Society will be discussing the underbelly of Soho, past and present.
*Please Note!
Unfortunately, Marc Glendening of the Sohemian Society will be unable to make this event due to unfroseen events. Thankfully, Paul Willetts, author of London gems ‘Fear and Loathing in Fitzrovia’ and ‘North Soho 999’, will be stepping in to join Cathi Unsworth. The pair will be in-store on Saturday 7th August at 5pm to discuss Soho’s colourful and dynamic history and the distinct culture that it has come to represent.
(talk/book event)
‘Fighting Fascism in London’
with David Renton
Wednesday 11th August, 7pm
Dave Renton will be discussing the anti-fascist struggles Londoners have engaged in over the years, taking in East Enders’ resistance against Mosley’s Black Shirts in the 1930s, the Anti-Nazi League fights of the 1970s, right up to today’s struggles against the BNP and the English Defence League.
(talk/book event)
‘How to Live Free in London’
with Katharine Hibbert
Saturday 14th August, 5pm
Journalist Katharine Hibbert decided to give it all up for a year: no job, no rented flat, no shopping, no debit card and no travel pass, walk the streets with only a backpack and spend a year living off the food, clothes, other goods and accommodation that would otherwise go to waste. It would be a year of squatting, scavenging and no spending.
The experience has changed her life, and she is now an active member of the Advisory Service for Squatters. Join Katharine to find out all you need to know about living free in London.
(talk)
‘Dan Chatterton - London's One Man Revolution’
Wednesday 25th August, 7pm
The Freethought History Research Group remember Dan Chatterton: Communist atheist pamphleteer, bill poster, slum dweller, early birth control advocate, fierce public ranter, and one of the most fascinating and undeservedly obscure characters of the London radical scene in the second half of the 19th century.
(talk/book launch)
‘Violent London: 2000 Years of Riots, Rebels and Revolts’
with Clive Bloom
Saturday 4th September, 5pm
Clive Bloom charts the story of London through centuries of popular insurrection and protest. It is a story of political activism expressed in street fighting and slum warfare, in assassination and bombing. Clive will and be launching his new updated version of ‘Violent London: 2000 Years of Riots, Rebels and Revolts’ published by Palgrave Macmillan.
(walk)
‘Walking the Siege of Sidney Street’
with Clive Bloom
Sunday 12th September - meeting place and time to be confirmed
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The Siege of Sidney Street, popularly known as the ‘Battle of Stepney’, was a notorious gunfight in London's East End in 1911. It ended with the deaths of two members of a politically-motivated gang of burglars supposedly led by Peter Piatkow, a.k.a. Peter the Painter, and sparked a major political row over the involvement of the Home Secretary, Winston Churchill. Clive Bloom will be retelling the tale in the spots where the action happened.
Housmans Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Road, King’s Cross,
London, N1 9DX
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